On February 13, 2004 10:52 am, Aron Smith wrote: > On Friday 13 February 2004 05:19 am, Keith Powell wrote: > > I have just been watching a daily Monday-Friday BBC Television > > business/consumer program called "Working Lunch". > > > > In it, there was an item about Microsoft's Windows source code > > being on the Internet. During the item, which concentrated on how > > this would affect we computer users, the following statements were > > made: > > > > "You can't just go out on the High Street and buy a different > > Operating system". > > But you can get a better one for free > > > "There are others, but Windows is the best". > > If you like security holes virai an Worms > > > After dwelling on Windows and briefly mentioning Mac, their > > "Consumer Affairs Correspondant" said, "There is a third system > > called Linux. However it is very complicated and you have to be a > > computer expert to be able to use it. I certainly couldn't use it" > > me an expert ..? (can I have a key of what this clown has been > smoking.<g> > > > With a large influential company (the BBC) making such > > pro-Microsoft and anti-Linux statements such as this, we have quite > > an opposition to overcome. > > > > It's no good writing to them and complaining, as they won't want to > > know. > > > > I sign myself "A disgusted viewer". > > > > Keith.
Not to be a [EMAIL PROTECTED] disturber ( yeah, Right! ) but the correspondent ( Gillean Lacey-Solymar ) giving us this "enlightened" perspective on the BBC show has an email address! Go figure! I accidentally put it right here - "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" in case someone wanted to contact her. Imagine that! She's a graduate of Oxford! Humph! You'd think she'd know how to do her homework by now! Also on staff with the BBC, Bill Thompson hits the nail on the head! "However for me one of the most interesting - and rather depressing - aspects of the week's coverage was that it revealed just how little most people know, or are assumed to know, about the way computers and programs really work." Ring a bell much? Bill continues with this - "In the coverage of the release of the Windows source code we've seen journalists try to describe what it is that has been posted to websites around the net, but those who didn't descend into cliché seemed only able to use the most misleading metaphors. Perhaps the most common is to describe the source code as a "blueprint", presumably because we've all seen movies in which architects pore over blueprints of buildings under attack, or because middle-class readers all have the blueprints of their extensions carefully filed away. But source code isn't the blueprint: it is the thing itself. The source is the set of instructions given to the computer that, when executed, cause the behaviour we see on screen." I think that this "Working Lunch" Correspondent fits into the category touched on by Bill Thompson. I wonder if they know each other ? Lanman -- Registered Linux user #190712 "Smart IT people are staring out the window into the eye of a giant penguin!"
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